Latest update to iOS 17 put a big gray poster background with white font on each of my contacts. Unless they used a custom photo, it is nearly impossible to read.
For clarification, I’m an older adult and my eyes aren’t what they used to be so most of my settings are set to a black background with a gray font.
Has anyone figured out how to change that gray poster box without having to do it on each contact one at a time?
This would indeed be very very helpful.
In addition to that request it would be nice to have a setting that disables the new default contact ID view that takes a lot of screen space just for style.
I would really prefer the old style where you don‘t have to scroll so much to see all essential contact information on one screen… I use this for business and I think a lot of us would like to have this setting to make it more convenient and practical again.
This would indeed be very very helpful.
In addition to that request it would be nice to have a setting that disables the new default contact ID view that takes a lot of screen space just for style.
I would really prefer the old style where you don‘t have to scroll so much to see all essential contact information on one screen… I use this for business and I think a lot of us would like to have this setting to make it more convenient and practical again.
Like everyone else I find this apple update bordering on insane. Do I want a grey background on my contacts ? No I don’t. I am 75 and struggling to read the screen. What is the point of this? Apple please answer this question. Just revert to the screen we had previously. In the words of many others “If it’s not broke don’t fix it”.
I have the same problem… But I have around 600+ contacts and I’m not about to go through all of them and sort out whom doesn’t have a poster setup and manually edit each one to fix this. How can I do a quick edit all/edit default color of names or backgrounds?
What were they thinking! The new contact display is both jarring and difficult to read. The choice of font size and brightness/contrast of different elements is terrible. I don't have pictures for most of my contacts, and probably never will, and yet this display design seems to assume that is the normal usage.
My eyes are perfectly fine, so that's not the issue.
This grey on the contact list is awful. Why did it have to be changed? Not to be able to change all contacts to same color at one time is ridiculous! I hate grey and I do not like this change. It was not needed nor helpful. Please put it the way it was or give the coloring on main screen.
I did tell Apple too, for what it's worth (probably nothing). I find it odd that you prefer a design which requires an extra step (scroll down) to access the telephone number, which is the primary purpose of Contacts. If photos are the primary purpose of the Contacts app, then forgive me, I've been using the apps the wrong way around, and maybe I need to start looking in Photos for telephone numbers?? Illogical at best. Terrible design at worst.
I have the iPhone 12 Pro Max when the new update of the 17 came up what the heck were they thinking the contacts phone contacts all of my contacts had photos with their name and number and then when you called them or they called you their picture would be full on my screen Well they screwed it up. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. They’ve covered up the picture with a gray color then when you go to your contacts to call someone, they have a little round picture of them and some of the colors are gray black green brown what the This is crazy they say do a photo or a poster. I had photos with every contact person on my phone I do not like this everyone else didn’t like it and some people said they didn’t want to take hundreds of contacts and change it one by one it needs to go back the way it was this is a real mess. I don’t like it and a lot of other people don’t like it. I like to look at my family my friends , you can keep your gray off of their picture and also on the contact all of these many colors when you go to their name to call them it’s green it’s brown it’s black it’s gray with a little photo there and their name and their number please put it back like it was. I am sick and tired of updates and they are changing stuff I would like to see you people to put it back the way it was and so many other hundreds of people that don’t like it either. Please change it back and if some people like to change, let them have the option to change it to the new look or leave it alone like it is we like it the old way it was this gray covering up the person body on the phone you can’t see them cause it’s smoky grayed out give people a choice leave it like it is or go to the new look.
Dostoyevsky2001 wrote:
The design is an absolute mess. No-one uses photos for contacts (except maybe for your wife/gf/bf etc.)
The number, which is the key reason for going into contacts, I now need to scroll down on my phone because 3/4 of the screen is taking up by this giant useless photo thing at the top. Crazy design idea. And not conducive to quick use of contacts as now have to scroll down (just checked my other older iPhone, and the number was instantly available). How can you re-design something, presumably test it, and actually make the functionality 100% worse. Very very odd
Tell Apple:
Every single person/contact lost lovely green I had set ... Uniformly--
and now.. all PRISON GREY.
I am told I now have the Privilege of customizing each Card as I use it.
all. 250 of them. Individually.
FIRE the Engineers.
Those options do not show up on my Contact Photo & Poster>Customize options. No color options, no slider. Just options to choose a photo or imoji, Camera or monogram. Really frustrating. Apple needs to address this ASAP. I hope they are reading these comments.
evyda3mon wrote:
Seems this thread takes off now!
Good.
Apple should resolve this in a weeks time. We use this iPhones - would you believe it - as PHONES.
And we need the perfectly fine old contact view back!
Tell Apple:
I am amazed at the product manager that allowed this. Using half the screen for nothing and then adding a poster or picture edit bar to waste more space when that could have been in an edit menu. Its unbelievable and so "unApple".
That being said, I was able to go from the first below to the second. It is NOT easy and takes me 5-7 minutes per contact. I did all ma "A".'s this afternoon after updating last night.
If I can do this, Apple can automate this in a similar way as an option. I can live with this if forced to.
I may not do any more hoping for enough outrage to get a quick fix.
Me too, and hopefully they’ll do an update that fixes this and allows people to choose to put the gray if they want it. Us older Folk needs the darker easily readable screens, and we’re not hanging out on them 24 hours a day. But when we need them we need them and we can’t read them if they’re gray!
IBDiab73 wrote:
It would be nice to have an option to set a poster for all contacts or a list (group)
Tell Apple. If enough people do, they may make a change:
dezinrtom wrote:
I wonder how long it will take for Apple to figure out and fix this . If you need better designers, please contact me.
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iOS 17 Default Contact Screen Difficult to Read
